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Bob P
Bob P
December 19, 2022 7:20 pm

Milgram was doing his most famous work (on obedience) in the sixties. He estimated 20% of the population were critical thinkers then. Given that our society seems to get stupider every year, I’d estimate it’s no more than 10% now.

samthere403
samthere403
  Bob P
December 20, 2022 4:55 am

I thought that 20% seemed kinda high. I know it is in my neck of the woods.

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 19, 2022 7:32 pm

Pareto’s 80%/20% seems to appear everywhere.

BL
BL
December 19, 2022 7:34 pm

Most of that 20% reside here in TBP Land. Sad that our country is to stupid to escape from a wet paper sack.

I have noticed that many times country people tend not to trust the narrative. Same folks don’t trust banks, but by damn they truly believe the orange man is the genuine article. Donnie is a hellava actor. It’s the 20% who question everything.

ASIG
ASIG
December 19, 2022 7:34 pm

Pareto Principle again.

Walt
Walt
December 19, 2022 8:25 pm

The root of our problem provides the foundation to their solution.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
  Walt
December 19, 2022 8:51 pm

Yes, it’s amazing it’s taken them this long. People must have had MUCH better thinking skills a century ago.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Glock-N-Load
December 20, 2022 4:16 am

Same as it Ever was.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
December 19, 2022 11:08 pm

Humans have multiple adaptive strategies. Communitarian solidarity has been a very effective approach in a multitude of environments and conditions.. It doesn’t always work, but it does often enough to have become heritable. There is no question that it poses a threat to the individual, but it is also the soil from which singular geniuses arise; Mozart and Edison, Michaelanglo and Tesla.

This is a transitory phase in our existence, we just happened to catch this time and we have to find a way to make it through until the pendulum swings back this way…

Disengage, step away, learn how to let it go. The old world is in an irreversible decline and while it cannot recover, the old ways can still be passed on to renew the way ahead.

Captain_Obviuos
Captain_Obviuos
  hardscrabble farmer
December 19, 2022 11:35 pm

This is why so many of our elders, like my late father, were sacrificed for the CONVID gods: the less of us around to impart the old — and generational — knowledge, the easier to subjugate the youth.

We must protect the young at all costs. There is no future without them.

Obbledy
Obbledy
December 20, 2022 4:25 am

I was always told I was “smart”and didn’t believe it for years……then I met somebody that WAS!Genius level,seemed to always know where the LINE was,when to cross it,when not to……funny thing ,he was an EXTREME non-conformist!….in the Navy !
Then one day I decided to find out and got a technical education.Somehow the world made more sense on a physical level.but people did not!Seems the most “educated”aren’t really very SMART at all.
The most “educated”we’re pushing the COVID narrative HARD,and yet every aspect of it DEFIED common sense.TBP is definitely the place!

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 20, 2022 5:58 am

milgram maneuvering.

The Use of Jewish Pilpul to Cloud and Obscure Issues and Discussions

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 20, 2022 7:10 am

Make no mistake about it though 80% believe they are in the 20%. You know that, right?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
December 20, 2022 9:30 am

Professors Dunning and Kruger approve this message.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect